Bernd Finkbeiner - Curriculum Vitae#
Current position:
- Tenured Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany, and
- Full Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Education:
- 2003 PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University (Advisor: Zohar Manna)
- 1996 Diploma in Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
- 1995 Master degree in Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware
Academic Distinctions:
- 2022 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 Landespreis Hochschullehre
- 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant
- Best/distinguished paper awards at FMCAD 2025, RV 2024, FM 2024, ATVA 2024, CSF 2023, ETAPS 2023, CAV 2022, ICAPL2009, FSEM 2007
- Outstanding teaching awards at Universität des Saarlandes in 2018 and 2021
Academic Self-Governance:
- since 2026 Jury Member of the CAV Award
- since 2024 Editorial Board Member of TheoretiCS
- since 2024 Steering Committee Member of the Verification Mentoring Workshop
- since 2010 Editorial Board Member of Acta Informatica
Organization of Scientific Meetings:
- 2024 Program Co-chair of “International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems” (TACAS)
- 2022 Program Co-chair of “International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation” (VMCAI)
- 2019 Program Co-chair of “International Conference on Runtime Verification” (RV)
- 2015 Program Co-chair of “Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis” (ATVA)
- Co-organizer of three Dagstuhl seminars (2007, 2023, 2024)
Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases:
- Current PhD students: 12, current postdocs: 1
- Completed PhD students: 19, completed postdocs: 5
Funding and Project Leadership:
- 2022 - 2027 ERC Advanced Grant “HYPER” (Logics and Algorithms for a Unified Theory of Hyperproperties)
- 2024 - 2026 DFG Project “PreCePT” (Precise Monitoring of Cyber-Physical Technology under Uncertainty)
- 2019 - 2026 DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248
- 2020 - 2023 GIF Project “Knowledge-Based Synthesis”
- 2016 - 2021 ERC Consolidator Grant “OSARES” (Output-Sensitive Algorithms for Reactive Synthesis)
- 2018 - 2021 DFG Project “Petri Games” (A Semantic and Algorithmic Approach for the Efficient Synthesis)
- 2015 - 2019 DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 1223 “privacySFB” (Methods and Tools for Understanding and Controlling Privacy)
- 2010 - 2016 DFG Project “SpAGAT” (Specification and Analysis of Games with Access rights varying over Time)
- 2004 - 2015 DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 14 “AVACS” (Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems)
- 2003 - 2007 BMBF Project “Verisoft” (Beweisen als Ingenieurwissenschaft)
